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The Oerken Tree: A Myth Reflecting the True Myth of Christianity

By: Thomas F. Booher To get The Oerken Tree as an E-Book go  here . To get more details into the world of Eskathoer and peak into the mind of the author, as well as to stay updated on the book and the series, like the Facebook page  here . C.S. Lewis has called Christianity the "true myth." Here is a bit of context to help us understand what he means (you can find the quote here ): Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'. As Christians, we are called to magnify His story, the story of redemption, for His glory. The